Housing

“Over the long term it would be desirable if house prices did not do very much as all as it would allow earnings to catch up and for housing to become more of an affordable commodity as so many white goods have become over the years,” he said.

Says Grant Shapps, the Housing Minister.

Let's federalise the UK. Regions in the North could use their autonomy to lower taxes to tempt businesses to set up there, make it easy to get planning permission to build houses on former industrial wasteland, etc.

Far better than building an expensive railway so more people can spend exactly the same amount of time commuting to London, just from further away.